#barren

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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#corpses #days #death #derision #division